Daniel Defoe Quotes

• El miedo al peligro es diez mil veces más aterrador que el propio peligro.

  Daniel Defoe

  Fear, Danger, Thousand

  Daniel Defoe (1995). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wisdom, Storm, Weight

  Daniel Defoe (1836). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.338

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• Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

  Daniel Defoe

  No espere nada

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• Es mejor tener un león a la cabeza de un ejército de ovejas, que una oveja a la cabeza de un ejército de leones.

  Daniel Defoe

  Leadership, Army, Sheep

  Daniel Defoe (1724). “Novels and miscellaneous works: With prefaces and notes, including those attributed to Sir Walter Scott”, p.382

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• El alma está colocada en el cuerpo como un diamante en bruto, y debe ser pulida, o su brillo nunca aparecerá.

  Daniel Defoe

  Soul And Body, Lust, Literature

  'An Essay Upon Projects' (1697)

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• Nunca es tarde para ser sabio.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wise, Too Late, Being Wise

  Daniel Defoe, Thomas Roscoe (1831). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, p.188

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• Aunque no me guste la tripulación, no hundiré el barco. De hecho, en tiempos de tormenta haré todo lo posible por salvarlo. Verás, todos estamos en esta nave y debemos hundirnos o nadar juntos.

  Daniel Defoe

  Swim, Storm, Together

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• In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

  Daniel Defoe

  Stay Calm, Trouble

  'The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe' (1719)

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• Todos nuestros descontentos por lo que queremos parecen surgir de la falta de agradecimiento por lo que tenemos.

  Daniel Defoe

  Thank You, Spring, Thankfulness

  Daniel Defoe (1815). “Crusoe, written by himself [by D. Defoe”, p.125

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• Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.

  Daniel Defoe

  Hate, Desire, Today

  Daniel Defoe (1948). “Robinson Crusoe, and A journal of the plague year”

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• Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

  Daniel Defoe

  Death, Self Esteem, Dying

  An Essay Upon projects 'Of Projectors'

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• All men would be tyrants if they could.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Tyrants, Would Be

  The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1

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• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  Daniel Defoe

  Honesty, Men, Literature

  'The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe' (1720) ch. 2

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• Actions receive their tincture from the times,
  And as they change are virtues made or crimes

  Daniel Defoe

  Action, Virtue, Crime

  'A Hymn to the Pillory' (1703) l. 29

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• Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Party, Eye, Men

  "Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe".

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• I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

  Daniel Defoe

  Inspirational, People, Empathy

  Daniel Defoe, James T. Boulton (1975). “Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe”, p.166, CUP Archive

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• I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

  Daniel Defoe

  Clouds, Storm, Saws

  Daniel Defoe (2007). “Moll Flanders”, p.50, Book Jungle

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• The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

  Daniel Defoe

  Fate, Men, Literature

  'Character of the late Dr S. Annesley' (1715)

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• Pleasure is a thief to business.

  Daniel Defoe

  Thieves, Pleasure

  'The Complete English Tradesman' (1725) vol. 1

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• Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

  Daniel Defoe

  Eye, Evil, Anxiety

  Daniel Defoe (1822). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe: who was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque, where he resided twenty-eight years. With an account of his travels through various parts of the world”, p.103

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• I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

  Daniel Defoe

  Spring, Dark, People

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more”, p.129, e-artnow

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• For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Thinking, House

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more”, p.5759, e-artnow

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• Wherever God erects a house of prayer
  the Devil always builds a chapel there;
  And 't will be found, upon examination,
  the latter has the largest congregation.

  Daniel Defoe

  Prayer, House, Atheism

  'The True-Born Englishman' (1701) pt. 1, l. 1.

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• Friends are good,--good, if well chosen.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wells, Chosen, Ifs

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• Como la codicia es la raíz de todos los males, así la pobreza es la peor de todas las asechanzas.

  Daniel Defoe

  Roots, Evil, Poverty

  'Moll Flanders' (1721)

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